diff --git a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/e2e/v1/autoscaling_utils.go b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/e2e/v1/autoscaling_utils.go
index d98d64c886cc..79632fcc8123 100644
--- a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/e2e/v1/autoscaling_utils.go
+++ b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/e2e/v1/autoscaling_utils.go
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ const (
 
 var (
 	resourceConsumerImage = imageutils.GetE2EImage(imageutils.ResourceConsumer)
-	stressCommand         = []string{"/stress", "--mem-total", "10000000000", "--logtostderr", "--mem-alloc-size", "8000"}
+	stressCommand         = []string{"/stress", "--mem-total", "10000000000", "--logtostderr", "--mem-alloc-size", "50000"}
 )
 
 var (
@@ -443,8 +443,8 @@ func runOomingReplicationController(c clientset.Interface, ns, name string, repl
 		Timeout:     timeoutRC,
 		Replicas:    replicas,
 		Annotations: make(map[string]string),
-		MemRequest:  1024 * 1024 * 1024,
-		MemLimit:    1024 * 1024 * 1024,
+		MemRequest:  1024 * 1024 * 300,
+		MemLimit:    1024 * 1024 * 500,
 	}
 
 	dpConfig := testutils.DeploymentConfig{
diff --git a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/e2e/v1/full_vpa.go b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/e2e/v1/full_vpa.go
index 811f84aca3a4..d96277663069 100644
--- a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/e2e/v1/full_vpa.go
+++ b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/e2e/v1/full_vpa.go
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ const (
 	// the initial values should be outside minimal bounds
 	initialCPU     = int64(10) // mCPU
 	initialMemory  = int64(10) // MB
-	oomTestTimeout = 8 * time.Minute
+	oomTestTimeout = 12 * time.Minute
 )
 
 var _ = FullVpaE2eDescribe("Pods under VPA", func() {
diff --git a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/recommender/routines/vpa.go b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/recommender/routines/vpa.go
index 0ba5c597c057..d7cfd66fcb0b 100644
--- a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/recommender/routines/vpa.go
+++ b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/recommender/routines/vpa.go
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ func GetContainerNameToAggregateStateMap(vpa *model.Vpa) model.ContainerNameToAg
 		containerResourcePolicy := api_utils.GetContainerResourcePolicy(containerName, vpa.ResourcePolicy)
 		autoscalingDisabled := containerResourcePolicy != nil && containerResourcePolicy.Mode != nil &&
 			*containerResourcePolicy.Mode == vpa_types.ContainerScalingModeOff
-		if !autoscalingDisabled && aggregatedContainerState.TotalSamplesCount > 0 {
+		if !autoscalingDisabled {
 			aggregatedContainerState.UpdateFromPolicy(containerResourcePolicy)
 			filteredContainerNameToAggregateStateMap[containerName] = aggregatedContainerState
 		}